Child Welfare Services Reauthorization (Supporting America’s Children and Families Act)
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-07-23 — A bill to amend section 477 of the Social Security Act to improve supports for expectant and parenting youth who have experienced foster care by strengthening coordination with the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with foster-youth-miechv-coordination: Both touch federal child welfare/foster care authorities; the S5096 amendment sits within the SSA Title IV-E Chafee framework that the broader child welfare reauthorization also addresses. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-01-04 — Supporting America’s Children and Families Act: P.L. 118-258 (Supporting America’s Children and Families Act) enacted, reauthorizing Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Services, MaryLee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families, and Court Improvement Program through FY2029, with modernizations including a tribal funding set-aside, authorization for virtual caseworker visits, remote court guidance, expanded family-preservation crisis benefits (housing/food), and kinship-navigator evaluation grants. (novelty: 3)